At the same time it’s a unique film in that the whole world – the vehicles, the costumes, the architecture – everything had to feel like it came from the mind of one person, Kevin Flynn. That’s a rare opportunity in a science fiction film, to have the whole world feel like it was designed by one man. So it was fun for me to kind of get this group of 40 or 50 ultra-talented designers together and to get them all kind of thinking like one mind; and within a few weeks it was fun to see sketches and designs coming back and you couldn’t tell who had done what because they were all understanding the aesthetic I was going for.
CGA: So all of these guys, have they gone back to their day jobs?
Joe Kosinski: No, a lot of them have stayed, they’ve stayed in the film business. A lot of them are now sought after to work on other movies. So a lot of them are here to stay, which is great.